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If you missed my conversation with Michael Coren on Canada's Sun News Network last night on my new book and other matters, simply click below to watch: ~Following my appearance in the 2014 Fabulous Fifty awards, I'm excited to see I'm Number Two on John Hawkins' annual hit parade of conservative columnists. I'm pipped (as I often am, and deservedly so) by Thomas Sowell, but it's an honor - nay, an honour - to be the highest-ranked foreigner on the chart, just ahead of fellow Commonwealth ...
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Steyn's Song of the Week
This essay is adapted from Mark's book A Song For The Season, personally autographed copies of which are exclusively available from the Steyn store and make a very thoughtful late Christmas gift: Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind? As the clock strikes midnight, we find ourselves facing yet again the old question: Why are there so few New Year songs? In the Nineties, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black wrote one for Norma Desmond and her designated if unwilling boy-toy ...
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In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark
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Il Foglio is my favorite Italian newspaper, and I especially like the way this editorial starts:
Diceva il polemista canadese Mark Steyn che la nostra visione della globalizzazione si fonda su un equivoco. Non si tratta di essere contenti perché i monaci tibetani finalmente usano internet, piuttosto: "L'esempio di maggior successo della globalizzazione non sono Starbucks o McDonald's, ma il wahabismo, un'oscura variante dell'islam praticata da pochi estremisti beduini che adesso la petrolricchezza saudita ha esportato in ogni angolo della terra..."
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Seasons of Steyn
This is a column we still get a lot of requests for this time of year - written eleven Christmases ago and riffing off an often overlooked corner of the Gospels...
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The notion of "approved" news goes back a long way. If you've read A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, you'll recall that Hank Morgan, the eponymous time-travelling New Englander, was much taken by the Court Circular published each week in Camelot:
On Monday, the King rode in the park.
" Tuesday, " " " " " "
" Wednesday, " " " " " "
But at least the King did, in fact, ride in the park...
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Mark at the Movies
We've come to that point on the calendar when film critics advise you to skip New Year's Eve and rent a movie instead. Better yet, rent a New Year movie, for it's a curious fact that almost any picture about December 31st somehow takes on the same depressing, desperate quality as the night itself...
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Ten Years Ago
In Britain and Europe, Christmas isn't just for Christmas, it's a holiday that lasts halfway to Valentine's Day...
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Seasons of Steyn
A cornucopia of Yuletide delights from the Santa Steyn grotto
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Mann vs Steyn
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit...
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